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Life without Parole : America's New Death Penalty?.

Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as "the new death penalty". Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ogletree, Charles J.
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2012.
Colección:Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race & Justice.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Lives on the Line: From Capital Punishment to Life without Parole; PART I: LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN CONTEXT; 1 Mandatory Life and the Death of Equitable Discretion; 2 Death-in-Prison Sentences: Overutilized and Underscrutinized; 3 Creating the Permanent Prisoner; 4 Life without Parole under Modern Theories of Punishment; PART II: PROSPECTS FOR REFORM; 5 Defending Life; 6 Life without Parole and the Hope for Real Sentencing Reform; 7 No Way Out? Life Sentences and the Politics of Penal Reform.
  • 8 Dignity and Risk: The Long Road from Graham v. Florida to Abolition of Life without ParoleAbout the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.